On Saturday, Musk posted a tweet alleging that Biden was intentionally allowing unauthorized immigrants into the US in order to create a “one-party state.” Experts and internet users criticized the post for being untrue and a dangerous promotion of far-right, white nationalist conspiracy theories.
Musk speaks up
“Biden’s strategy is very simple,” Musk claimed in his post on X. First, “Get as many illegals in the country as possible.” Second, “Legalize them to create a permanent majority — a one-party state.”
Final claim
“That is why they are encouraging so much illegal immigration,” Musk alleged. “Simple, yet effective.”
Reality check
In 2023, the number of people deported was almost double the year prior — over 142,000 people. Biden described his proposed border deal as the “toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country.”
Serious promise
Biden explained in a Jan 26 statement that his bill would grant him “a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed.… If given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”
Repeated lie
Musk has repeatedly claimed that Democrats are “importing voters,” a claim that echoes the rhetoric of Trump, who alleged that Democrats “want to sign these people up to vote.” Federal law forbids unauthorized immigrants from registering to vote, and those caught attempting to do so face fines, prison, and deportation.
Extremely rare
In 2017, the Brennan Center pored over 23.5 million votes cast in the 2016 election, including in major states like Texas and California. Of those tens of millions of votes, election officials found just 30 cases where noncitizens potentially voted.
Essentially nonexistent
In 2022, Georgia conducted a major audit of its voter rolls. Over the previous 25 years, noncitizens attempted to register to vote fewer than 2,000 times — and none were successful.
Yet more evidence
In January, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, which helps Latinos understand their voting rights, stated that it had never found evidence of noncitizens voting in the decades it had been active.
Dark truth
The noncitizen voting claims pushed by Musk, Trump, and others are “a tongue-in-cheek way of pushing the great replacement theory, but in a way that has been understood to be less morally repugnant or perceivably more defensible,” explained Jared Holt, an expert in online disinformation and extremism. “I don’t think you have to scratch very far below the surface to understand what is really being said.”
Repeated promotion
As Rolling Stone reported in early January, Musk has repeatedly promoted the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. “The Tesla CEO and X owner has long been receptive to racist, far-right talking points alleging to some erosion of Western white identity,” the magazine explained.
Losing support
In November, Bloomberg reported that Musk’s tweet endorsing the “antisemitic” great replacement theory “sent advertisers fleeing.”
The real danger
On X, liberal political commentator Will Stancil responded to Musk’s noncitizen voters claim by pointing out that immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. He posted data from the Pew Research Center and the Cato Institute that demonstrates that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at far lower rates.
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